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no problem. they may xray your bags after u have picked up your bags and before exiting customs...... but I have sailed through without issue everytime even with an xray......still get nervous though when this happens.

Still conservative and socially very backwards in spore

Good piece of advice......dress professionally, carry a laptop so you don't stand out. Also avoid eye contact with the custom agents and go though the doors with a crowd. I have been known to pretend to talk on my phone to avoid inspection!

I've never thought to carry a letter from my doctor when I travel with meds, I usually just keep my meds in an unlabelled pillbox. So I am curious: What do you ask your doctor to say in the letter? Is it just supposed to say that the meds are legitimately prescribed to you? Is the letter supposed to disclose details of what exactly the meds are and the conditions they are treating? Just want to make sure I don't run into problems in the future when I travel...

When I've had a letter to cover my meds while travelling, my doctor only stated that I was carrying meds that I needed daily for a chronic condition. There is no need to specify what that condition might be. Just make sure it's written on paper with a hospital or practice letterhead and having a stamp (such as a date stamp) on it doesn't hurt either. I never had to produce the letter(s), but it made me feel a little easier to have it just in case.

It has to be said though, that the meds I got doctor letters for were drugs that had to be injected so I also had needles with me. I was able to carry the needles in my carry on - and this was not long after 9/11 when they were being extra strict about what you had in your carry on.

These days I regularly fly with three or four months worth of meds in my carry on and even though I'm doing what's basically a domestic flight, the outbound security at John Lennon airport is pretty rigorous. I've yet to have a problem. (now just watch, when I go next month I'll probably get pulled aside and asked to explain my portable pharmacy)

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts

Yes the letter does not specify the condition. Mind you I traveled with 3 months supply so it would be hard to travel with so many pills in unmarked container...

It's also not a good idea to travel with meds in unmarked containers (or putting them in vitamin bottles when they're obviously not vitamins). If they're found, having them in unmarked (or vitamin) containers will arouse suspicion far faster than when they're in their original containers. It's only smugglers of illicit drugs who try to disguise or hide what they're carrying.

"...health will finally be seen not as a blessing to be wished for, but as a human right to be fought for." Kofi Annan

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man. Mignon McLaughlin

HIV is certainly character-building. It's made me see all of the shallow things we cling to, like ego and vanity. Of course, I'd rather have a few more T-cells and a little less character. Randy Shilts